Daily Reading List – June 26, 2023 (#111)

You’ll find a healthy amount of AI content on the docket today, but that’s a lot of what folks are writing about at the moment. Take a look!

[blog] I don’t enjoy these 7 software development activities. Thanks to generative AI, I might not have to do them anymore. From me, today. I wrote up my experiences offloading un-exciting tasks to LLMs.

[blog] Announcing vector support in PostgreSQL services to power AI-enabled applications. I’m just starting to understand the use cases for vector databases, and this post does a nice job explaining them. Here’s a demo of this tech in action.

[article] Companies That Replace People with AI Will Get Left Behind. It’s an enabler for many, while replacing some functions too. Smart companies will lean into AI as something that makes their current staff better.

[blog] Thoughts on event sourcing: Replaying events. It’s useful to be able to re-process failed messages in your event driven architecture, but there can be side effects of sending data through again.

[blog] Google Cloud Leapfrogs Amazon To Become #2 on Cloud Wars Top 10. It’s not any sort of official “ranking”, but I do like us seeing us movin’ on up.

[youtube-video] Building Projects. This is a terrific series of videos that shows off building the same sort of REST API in a variety of tech stacks. It’s a great way to get a look at different platforms like Go, JavaScript, Python. .NET, Java, and more.

[blog] Terraform on Google Cloud V1.4 — Cloud Functions. Yes, even your very dynamic serverless functions can be modeled as Terraform resources for consistent provisioning.

[blog] Generative AI Will Sprint Into Your Business Through Four Doors. Do you feel like you’re getting peppered by GenAI from every direction? You’re not imagining things.

[blog] Compile Rust & Go to a Wasm+Wasi module and run in a Wasm runtime. I’ve been following along with Mete’s journey through Web Assembly, and have learned a few pieces of info.

[article] Google DeepMind’s CEO Says Its Next Algorithm Will Eclipse ChatGPT. Keep an eye on this upcoming large language model!

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